A Life in Eras

Marriage & Early Family

2013 – present

Chapter 3

Teenage Years

School, friends, first cameras.

This is the logging truck with the wireline leading from the

Louis described how he would tie a little bit of bacon on a

Louis described how the tool pusher turned his head to Louis

She always walked with a limp but never complained or whined

Jan Mickle (Holloway)

Mom and Dad were Baptists and raised their three kids in that denomination.

Bullied by Michael Jordan

Anyhow, we could receive three channels: ABC, CBS and NBC

This is what a tube tester looked like

Here are some of the shows we watched pretty regularly:

There was also a Hammond Organ that rose up from the floor w

The bus stop was two blocks away from our house.

My sharpest memories of segregation involve five things:

I have already described the demarkation sign in busses to s

Unfortunately this was the 'normal' I grew up in and I am im

Crystal Radio and Hurricane Audrey

1956 Dodge Texan

I think it is intensely stupid that we have tremendous lever

I learned to drive in this car and was allowed, at 14, to dr

He traded the Dodge the next day for a beige Chrysler Newport.

California 1957

The fourth travel day got us to Rosemead, California, to our

Many cars in the desert area had ‘swamp coolers’ hung on the

More on Elementary School Years

I think Terry went to Edwards for his first three years and

IFinally, coke was not an everyday thing, but a treat

It probably was not a Maytag, more likely a Kenmore.

Redneck Swimming Pools

Yikes - My Bike

The rest of the story: The damage was to the front wheel, th

Golden/Slay Airplane

The magic ingredient to make all of this work was butter

We abandoned the glider in lieu of building a helicopter at

Flying Red Horse Club

t was a few miles north of Silsbee on Village Creek

On the opposite shore from the ladder was a very nice sandba

Luther, Nora and Cars

This was the summer of my 14th year and I had a brand new dr

Making Money = Paper Route

But, the Beaumont Enterprise and Journal would let 11 year o